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Cowboys K Dave Rayner: “if they had the guy they wanted…they wouldn’t have brought me in”

The Cowboys have five _ count them, five _ kickers in this camp. Dave Rayner is the lastest to join the competition.

Did he have second thoughts about joining such a cluttered competition?

“Obviously, if they had the guy they wanted already here, they wouldn’t have brought me in,” Rayner said. “That’s kind of what I went with.

“I talked to them yesterday and they’re pretty excited about me coming in, so I’m just going to try to win the job.”

The Cowboys monitored the kicking competition in Detroit this pre-season and jumped on Rayner the moment he was available. Head coach Jason Garrett said Rayner, David Buehler, Shayne Graham and Dan Bailey will all get the chance to kick in Thursday’s pre-sesaon finale against Miami.

Kai Forbath, the fifth competitor, still has not been cleared to kick in a game.

“This is a first,” Rayner said of being in camp with four other kickers. “We have like a starting five. We can get a basketball team going.

“But that’s obviously going to change in the next week or so. Hopefully, I’m not one of the ones that leaves.”

Rayner, by the way, did not arrive in Dallas on Jerry Jones’ private jet as I blogged yesterday. He flew coach.